It was a great summer week including driving up three different canyons and swimming in two different lakes and going on the first camping trip of 2015!  I love summer.

On Monday, the SHS cross country team did a trail run up Hobble Creek Canyon.  The family of one of the girls on the team owns a place at the end of the left fork behind a lavish, intimidating gate. The family invited the team to run up to their ranch for breakfast.  What fun!  I volunteered to drive kids back down after the run.  It was a beautiful morning and I got to see what was behind the gate!  I had to laugh when I saw it because it was so normal!  Megan and Mariah got in a good five-mile, uphill run and had breakfast in a beautiful spot with lots of friends.  I was glad  I got to watch!

I promised the younger kids that I would take them to the new Springville resevoir on Monday, too, so after lunch I took Megan (and her friend, Rebekah), Chey, Cali, Beth, and Ben to the ultra crowded, brand spanking new Springville attraction.  We got ourselves a beach!  It even has sand and a little snack bar!  We are excited!  As is every family in Springville and possibly all its surrounding areas.  We did manage to find ourselves a spot on the sand and the kids had a great time playing in the water and the sand and playing with the kids around them.  We'll be back.

Tuesday evening, the YM/YW went up Mapleton's canyon for foil dinners.  Sarah had to work, but Meg and Mariah had fun.  It's a beautiful place, too!

Thursday afternoon we left for a camping trip with Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik at Payson Lakes Campground!  That is such a beautiful place and we have so many fun memories there.  It was fun to be back!  We brought the canoe and Kevin gave everyone the chance to fish.  That first night we got nine fish!  We had them for breakfast and they were sooo good!  They were a lot of work to clean and cook, though, so on Friday, Kevin and the girls just caught and released.  They had lots of fun fishing!  When the others weren't fishing, they were swimming!  On our first night, Cali and Chey and Beth and Ben even found a log to play on which is exactly the memory I have of my four oldest when we came to the lake when they were younger!  Grandma and Grandpa also had a birthday party for Beth while we were there since they will be off adventuring on the 29th.  They always treat us so well!  We had a great time.